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Montero Does Dallas!!!

And the sleeping dragon awakes! Fredy Montero takes so much heat throughout the season from Sounders fans. If things aren’t going well for Seattle, take a moment to read the comment sections from fans of any news source in town and you will find the ‘Fredy is lazy, he’s slow, can’t possess the ball, he’s a prima donna, should never be a designated player, I can’t wait until we get rid of him and his no effort hide’ jabs! It’s stunning.

Both Debbie and Fredy scored last night!

I’ve let that stuff go about two and a half seasons ago. You’ve got to accept Fredy for what he is and not what we think the captain’s armband should tell us. Fredy is a dangerous piece to this Sounders FC puzzle. He jigged and jagged on FC Dallas in the second half of last night’s game for two goals that would have the Fox Soccer Channel analysts drooling. If the pieces are fitting together for the Sounders…a defense that doesn’t need GPS to find opposing strikers, creative possession held on the outside from the mids, a dangerous counterpart making competent runs up the middle and presto!!! Fredy is there to clean up the rest…Captain Cherry Picker is Fredy at his most dangerous!!!
This is an easy one to write up…Sounders FC, a pleasure to have in class. If I were a teacher grading the performance that I watched at the Clink last Wednesday night, I would award an A+ for effort against ‘some’ version of the Galaxy from LA. The Sounders hadn’t beaten the Galaxy in two years…0-5-1 in the last six matches…David Beckham didn’t play…LA manager Bruce Arena thought his bed was too hard at the hotel…blah, blah, blah!!!
Earlier last week, I thought that match was about getting a monkey off your back or slaying the dragon or exorcising demons, today, not so much. Last Wednesday night’s match was about the Sounders clearly being the better team on the pitch (artificial pitch, but a pitch nonetheless). You can only play the competition that the opposing manager decides to display. If Bruce Arena wants to bring a butter knife to a sword fight then that is his prerogative. If he wants to leave David Beckham and Robbie Keane in LA so they don’t have to play on the allegedly impenetrable concrete slab that is the XBox pitch, then further dig the hole that you deserve to be in near the bottom of the Western Conference standings. Oh, and Galaxy, nice egg you layed against the Red Bulls after ‘resting’ your players…pmmphh. Props to Mauro and the defense for saving Cinco de Mayo for us last Saturday against the Union, 1-0. Last night’s victory over Dallas brings the squad to cinco wins in a row!
Seven days, 3 wins! 7-1-1!!! 1 point away from being at the top of the table in the Western Conference after only nine games on the season! This is beginning to seem like the party that won’t end. You know that party…the one that almost ended at midnight but then a completely new crew rolls in and next thing you know, it’s 3:00 am and we’re trying to figure out who is going to drive to ‘Jack In the Box’! Fredy Montero, the return of Mauro Rosales and now, the emergence of goal keeper Bryan Meredith have been the life of this party in recent days.

So far, everything stops here...

Meredith has been holding the fort in expert fashion and has completely gained the confidence of Sounders Nation as Michael Gspuring is on the mend (goalie controversy? Just sayin’…). That confidence will be tested once again this Saturday (man, no time to celebrate!) against the hated, reviled Real Salt Lake. The only thing Real about them is that they’re real jerks in my humble opinion. The games are usually chippy, ugly affairs with Salt Lake. I’ve seen more cards given out in their games than mothers will get this Sunday.
The Sounders (-111) are the early favorite over Real (+270) on the strength of only giving up three goals on the season (the under 2.5 goals for the game is favored at -133). Real is coming off a 0-0 draw with the Chicago Fire. The extended travel for Salt Lake should be an element the Sounders should be able to exploit. Let’s keep this party going guys, I just found my mix tapes!

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Simon MoyseBorn in London, Simon joined the Emerald City Supporters after he moved to Snohomish in 2004. He watches games with his son Elliott.